Metadata Standards

Like all members of the Advanced Research Consotium, MuSO promotes the use of standardised description vocabularies for digital objects. This is implemented as a Resource Data Framework (RDF) that all contributing projets must employ in order to be aggregated by MuSO. The MuSO RDF includes that of the Advanced Research Consortium, which can be viewed on the ARC wiki.

In order to allow musical items to be described in ways that are meaningful to music scholars, MuSO has established its own standards to supplement ARC's standards . These are listed below.

Elements

In addition to the specifications of the ARC schema.

<muso:created>

Element used when contributor wants to preserve a date other than that of a particular object (i.e. performance date, date of revision or edition, etc.), it has two child elements, <rdfs:label> and <rdf:value>
Vocabulary: None
Required: No
Repeatable: Yes

<muso:subgenre>

Information about music-specific genres for musical objects
Vocabulary: https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcmlalist.pdf
Required: No
Repeatable: Yes

<muso:other_id>

Other relevant reference identifiers for the items that are known to the scholarly community and critical for discoverability (i.e. Digital Object Identifier, Short Title Catalog, composer work number, etc.), should follow the format: <muso:other_id=”label”>Value</other_id>
Vocabulary: None
Required: No
Repeatable: Yes

<muso:autograph>

If present, a "true" value denotes the object is an autographed copy from the creator or that it contains the creator’s handwriting
Vocabulary: Boolean
Required: No
Repeatable: No

<muso:notation>

Reference to the notation types used on a musical object, vocabulary based on the values in the Resource Description and Access Registry for Form of Musical Notation.
Vocabulary:

graphic	form of musical notation that uses various suggestive lines, symbols, colour, etc., to prompt or guide the performers
letter	form of musical notation that uses the letters of the alphabet to designate pitches
mensural	form of musical notation, beginning around 1260 and continuing through about 1600, employing four principal note-values and associated rests: long, breve, semibreve, and minim to notate duration
number	form of musical notation conveying pitch by use of numbers, assigned to the notes of a scale, the keys of a keyboard, the finger positions or frets of a string instrument, or to the holes or valves of a wind instrument
solmization	form of musical notation that designates pitches by means of conventional syllables rather than letter names
staff	form of musical notation in wide use for Western art music, conveying pitch and duration using a staff of parallel lines, often in combination with other staves
tablature	form of musical notation, from 1300 or later, that uses letters, numerals, or other signs as an alternative to conventional staff notation
tonic sol-fa	form of musical notation that replaces staff notation with sol-fa syllables or their initials
neumatic	form of musical notation using neumes, i.e., graphic signs that represent essentially the movement in pitch of a melody
encoded	form of music notation using a computer-readable language

Required: No
Repeatable: Yes

<muso:bib_only>

If present, a "true" value denotes the object is a bibliographic reference such as a library catalog entry, rather than a digital surrogate
Vocabulary: Boolean
Required: No
Repeatable: No

<muso:annotated>

If present, a "true" value denotes the object contains annotations alongside the original content
Vocabulary: Boolean
Required: No
Repeatable: No Repository Identifiers

<muso:rism>

A shorthand reference to the contributing library or archive as assigned by Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM)
Vocabulary: http://www.rism.info/sigla
Required: No
Repeatable: Yes

<muso:license>

Statement of the license for the surrogate object
Vocabulary:

cc-by-nc	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License
cc-by-nc-nd	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
cc-by-nc-sa	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
cc-by-nd	Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License
copyright	Object is protected by copyright
patent	Object is protected by patent
trademark	Object is protected by trademark

Required: No
Repeatable: No

<muso:uniform_title>

The uniform title of an object. Drawn from the Library of Congress Authorities.
Vocabulary: https://authorities.loc.gov/
Required: No
Repeatable: No